Larkin I. Smith

Larkin I. Smith ( born June 26, 1944 in Poplarville, Mississippi; † August 13, 1989 in a plane crash in Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between January and August 1989, he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Larkin Smith attended Poplarville Elementary School and thereafter until 1962, the Poplarville High School. He subsequently joined the police force. Between 1966 and 1972 he was deputy chief of police in Pearl River County. After that, he was until 1977 chief investigator in Harrison County. Between 1977 and 1983 he served as police chief of the city of Gulfport. Since 1 January 1984 to 1 January 1989, Smith was chief of police in Harrison County.

Smith was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1988, he was elected in the fifth district of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced Trent Lott on January 3, 1989. Smith has resigned from the Congress but exert only until 13 August 1989. On this day he was killed in the crash of a private plane on a flight from Hattiesburg to Gulfport. The machine crashed in the De Soto National Forest.

Pearl River County, Mississippi Harrison County (Mississippi) Gulfport (Mississippi) Mississippi Territory Narsworthy Hunter Thomas M. Green, Jr. William Lattimore George Poindexter Christopher Rankin William Haile (Mississippi) Thomas Hinds Franklin E. Plummer David Dickson (politician) Samuel J. Gholson Thomas J. Word Jacob Thompson Benjamin D. Nabers Daniel B. Wright Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II George E. Harris Henry L. Muldrow John Mills Allen Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr. John E. Rankin Thomas Abernethy Jamie L. Whitten Travis Childers Alan Nunnelee Harry Cage John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne Seargent Smith Prentiss Albert G. Brown William H. Hammett Stephen Adams (politician) Winfield S. Featherston John Allen Wilcox William T. S. Barry Hendley S. Bennett Reuben Davis (representative) Joseph L. Morphis Albert R. Howe Guilford Wiley Wells Elza Jeffords James B. Morgan John Kyle William V. Sullivan Hubert D. Stephens Bill G. Lowrey Wall Doxey David R. Bowen Webb Franklin Bennie Thompson Robert W. Roberts Patrick W. Tompkins John D. Freeman Otho R. Singleton William Barksdale Henry W. Barry Thomas C. Catchings Pat Henry (politician) Benjamin G. Humphreys II William Y. Humphreys William Madison Whittington Frank E. Smith John Bell Williams Charles H. Griffin Chip Pickering Gregg Harper Jefferson Davis Henry T. Ellett Wiley P. Harris William A. Lake George C. McKee Jason Niles Chapman L. Anderson Joseph H. Beeman Andrew F. Fox Wilson S. Hill Thomas U. Sisson T. Jeff Busby Aaron L. Ford W. Arthur Winstead Thad Cochran Michael Parker (politician) Gene Taylor (Mississippi politician) Steven Palazzo John A. Quitman John J. McRae Charles E. Hooker Henry Smith Van Eaton T. R. Stockdale Walter M. Denny William F. Love Frank A. McLain Adam M. Byrd Samuel Andrew Witherspoon William W. Venable Ross A. Collins Aubert C. Dunn William M. Colmer John R. Lynch James Ronald Chalmers Ethelbert Barksdale James G. Spencer Patrick Henry (U.S. Congressman) Eaton J. Bowers Paul B. Johnson, Sr. T. Webber Wilson Robert S. Hall Frederick G. Barry Clarke Lewis John Sharp Williams William A. Dickson Dan R. McGehee James Collier
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